Distributed transaction management: Uses distributed concurrency and commit protocols. Also, in case of numerous transaction failures, the database provides methods of distributed recovery.

Industry analyst and former IT executive Matt Kimball digs into the technical and operational details of Oracle's new Globally Distributed Autonomous Database.

Distributed database consistency models form the backbone of reliable and high-performance systems in today’s interconnected digital landscape. These models define the guarantees provided by a ...

Oracle Corp. announced today that its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is generally available. Aimed at customers that have strict data sovereignty requirements, usually because of ...

In this article, author Juan Pan discusses the data sharding architecture patterns in a distributed database system. She explains how Apache ShardingSphere project solves the data sharding ...

Decentralized Database Management Solutions Inery, the first-ever layer-0 blockchain to provide a solution for decentralized database management, is starting to move forward in this direction.

Google Cloud Spanner is a managed distributed database that has the scalability of NoSQL databases while retaining SQL compatibility, relational schemas, ACID transactions, and external consistency.

A distributed SQL database is “lightweight, portable and fast for the cloud, but still reliable and familiar so that application developers can use it for multiple workloads,” he added.

Neo4j is not yet a fully distributed graph database, even with 4.0. But with the new multiple database feature – which essentially allows users to shard a single graph database into multiple ...